Civics 101

September 11, 2009.

Every time I hear a Federal Politician say that they were sent to Washington to “solve problems” I want to scream.  The U.S. Federal Government was not established to solve our problems.  Did you know that all elected officials in the Federal Government (The President, The Senate, The House of Representatives and Federal Judges) take an oath of office upon entering the position to which they were elected or appointed?  Do you know what they swear to do?  Is it to solve problems? No!  To provide wealth redistribution? No!  To provide health care to every citizen? No!  To provide local infrastructure? No!

Every elected official to the U.S. Federal Government takes an oath to “DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.”  That’s it.  THAT’S IT!!!

Do you have any idea what the Constitution of the United States was created to do?  It was created to authorize the federal government to provide for defense and national security, to facilitate interstate commerce, to establish foreign policy and to PROTECT THE FREEDOM of the citizens of the United States.  The U.S. Constitution explicitly assigns the job of problem solving to State and Local government.  If my local county needs a bridge, a museum, a school or a new road, it’s the responsibility of my county to tax its citizens and build a bridge, a museum, a school or a new road.  If that road or school is a state road or a state University, then it’s the state’s responsibility to collect taxes from its citizens and build that road and that University.  Why must the citizens of Idaho be responsible for building a new wing at the University of Georgia?  By the same token, why must my income be “legally plundered” away from my family and my community and used to fund an art show in New York City?

Now, some may ask “what about the Interstate Road System?  Isn’t that a Federally funded project?”  When Eisenhower decreed that we would build an Interstate Road System, its purpose was national defense (the rapid movement of troops.)  That’s why the Federal Government was involved in the building of an Interstate Road System (although the states were responsible for building and maintaining the portions that ran through their borders).  That’s Constitutional!  Slavery and civil legal rights were freedom issues. That’s why it was constitutional for the Federal Government to step in and end slavery and later, to force integration of schools and the workplace.

Please, please, please Federal Government – Please stop trying to solve our problems. You are the least equipped organization to solve problems because you are so dang inefficient at it and I think we can all agree that you have proven this over and over again.  Cut federal spending and taxes now.  Give us back our income and we will solve our own problems and have some extra left over contribute to local charities and to increase our local taxes for local problem solving.  PROTECT OUR FREEDOM!!!   And since the Federal Government is so inept at handling our money, cutting the money that flows through the Federal Government will actually make the dollar a much stronger currency on the world stage.  Let’s face it, the travesty of Federal deficits has pretty much relegated the United States to a second world country for the foreseeable future.  Rise up America and take this country back from the power-hungry (and money hungry) CLOWNS in Washington D.C..  We must rise up and say enough is enough!!!!!!!!